Aftab Hashim

Everyone deserves respect, but very few and the nearest are important in our lives.

[Imran Riaz Khan @ImranRiazKhan]

بس یہ تختی اکھاڑنے کے چکر میں پورا ملک اکھاڑ دیا۔

[PTI @PTIofficial]

PRESS RELEASE
PTI Strongly Condemns the Heinous Kidnapping, Gang Rape, Extortion and Brutal Torture of Foreign Women in Lahore; Directly Implicates Grandson of Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and Demands His Immediate Resignation for a Transparent, Impartial Investigation Free from Elite Interference

Islamabad, July 5, 2026:

Sheikh Waqas Akram, Secretary Information of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has issued the following statement:

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf expresses its profound shock, grief and strongest condemnation of the horrific kidnapping, blackmail, extortion and barbaric sexual and physical torture inflicted upon two foreign women, nationals of the Netherlands and Venezuela, in Lahore. This shameful and heart-wrenching scandal has directly named Reza Dar, grandson of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, as a prime accused in the First Information Report (FIR).

What began as a criminal case has escalated into a grave matter of national and international consequence, seriously damaging Pakistan’s global image, diplomatic credibility and national honour. PTI rejects any political cover-up, attempts to intimidate the judiciary or tactics to shield members of the elite.

The serious allegations in the FIR, supported by the victims’ statements before the court, demand a completely transparent, thorough, independent and uncompromising investigation without interference. The probe following the recording of statements under Section 164 CrPC must be fully independent, free from political, administrative or elite influence, and conducted with absolute transparency. Disturbing reports have emerged of the misuse of state power to protect the accused from the outset. Allegations that police forcibly raided a Judicial Magistrate’s residence to pressure him represent a shocking example of elite interference in the judicial process.

The disclosures by senior police officials have clarified the timeline and depraved nature of this heinous crime. However, critical aspects remain unclear, including the identity of the mysterious “boss” named in the FIR as the orchestrator. Why is this individual still shielded? Until he is identified and brought before the law, the real forces behind the scandal will remain unaddressed.

PTI also questions the credibility of the investigation after the sudden departure of the foreign victims to their home countries. Were these traumatised women repatriated of their own free will, or was there a design to remove the primary complainants and suppress the case? Without their presence and testimony, how can meaningful convictions and justice be secured?

This scandal has brought international disgrace upon Pakistan. The country cannot afford any cover-up or protection of the powerful. To ensure an impartial, independent and fearless investigation free from political influence, Sheikh Waqas Akram demands the immediate resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar.

If Ishaq Dar has any regard for Pakistan’s international standing, honour and dignity, he must step down immediately. As long as a powerful member of the accused’s family occupies one of the country’s highest offices, a transparent and credible inquiry remains inconceivable.

PTI makes it clear that Pakistan’s honour and justice for these oppressed women must take precedence over the protection of ruling families.

Sheikh Waqas Akram demands strict criminal proceedings against all named accused and their patrons or facilitators. PTI will continue to raise its voice until the case reaches its logical and just conclusion.

Issued by
Central Media Department
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

[Husnain Rafique @Husnainrafique_]

آپ مٹانے والے کب سے بن گئے ؟
یہ لیں تصویر

[Hamid Mir حامد میر @HamidMirPAK]

60 members of the UK Parliament trying to reach ⁦@CMShehbaz⁩ since last many days and pleading to start a dialogue with protesters in Azad Kashmir.

[Jibran Ilyas @agentjay2009]

Simple but direct questions about Imran Khan and the inhumane treatment!

General Asim Munir is violating all international laws and human right mandates Pakistan is internationally responsible for. One man ruining Pakistan’s image, what a shame!

#EndKhansIsolationNow

[Aftab Hashim @Hashim9293]

@Euro_Pak_Org @InsafPK @UN @amnesty @UNHumanRights @hrw

[Michael Kram 🇨🇦 @MichaelKramSK]

Free Imran Khan! Imran Khan has been left to languish in a Pakistani prison cell for over three years. Today in the House of Commons I presented a petition calling for his release, as well as the release of all political prisoners in Pakistan.

[AtharIshtiaq @AtharSb12]

ایک پارٹی ہے جسے نون لیگ کہتے ہیں جو ہمشیہ چور دروازے سے اقتدار میں آتی ہے
سردار امان کشمیری

[Hamid Mir حامد میر @HamidMirPAK]

کیا یہ سب کے سب بھارتی ایجنٹ ہیں ؟ انکی قیادت کے ساتھ مذاکرات کے بغیر صورتحال بہتر نہیں ہو گی جو لوگ آزادکشمیر میں نفرتوں کے کاروبار سے فائدہ اٹھانے کی کوشش میں ہیں وہ ہم سب کے دشمن ہیں

[Aftab Hashim @Hashim9293]

@SohailAfridiISF @business @Reuters @AJEnglish @CNN @business @trtworld @DropSiteNews

[Aftab Hashim @Hashim9293]

@HaleemAdil @AP @Reuters @business @AJEnglish @CNN @BBCWorld @trtworld

[Aftab Hashim @Hashim9293]

@noreen_khanum @CNN @BBCWorld @trtworld @AJEnglish @MarioNawfal @piersmorgan

[Aftab Hashim @Hashim9293]

@noreen_khanum @DropSiteNews

[Aftab Hashim @Hashim9293]

@OfficialShehr @AJEnglish @BBCWorld

[Aftab Hashim @Hashim9293]

@ShafiJanPTI @SohailAfridiISF @salmanAraja @MKAchakzaiPKMAP

[Aftab Hashim @Hashim9293]

#سائفر_ایک_حقیقت

[Dr. Arif Alvi @ArifAlvi]

On the Cipher, the Coverup, and the Consequences:

Drop Site News published a document, claiming that it is the original Cipher I-0678 dated 7 March 2022, and it came from a military source. The world now believes that this is the smoking gun. Let's dissect it from there.

Pakistan's establishment spent four years suppressing, prosecuting people over it, claiming that it did not exist. The truth was forced out not from within Pakistan, but by an American investigative outlet. That fact alone is the indictment.

Donald Lu told Pakistan's Ambassador plainly: “All will be forgiven in Washington”, if the no-confidence motion against PM @ImranKhanPTI succeeded, while warning of isolation if it did not. This was not diplomacy. It was a threat and a bribe, delivered in the same breath, to a sovereign nation's ambassador. The NSC in its two meetings clearly stated that this amounted to unacceptable and blatant interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan and that the Govt. rightly issued a démarche.

On 12 May 2022, I as President formally wrote to CJP Umar Bandial requesting a Judicial Commission, open hearings, full investigation and truth be placed on record. This was published in all newspapers. (Please read the letter below, every word carries historic weight in world affairs of this nature).

CJP received that letter. Did not comment. Did not act. The judiciary's silence marked the beginning of its institutional surrender. Had that Commission been constituted, these questions would have been answered under oath: who received the cipher, who acted upon it, who domestically facilitated the foreign signal, and which institutions of the Pakistani state collaborated in the removal of an elected prime minister.

Pakistan would have had the truth. A man who warned the nation would not have been imprisoned on false charges arising from the very document the state refused to investigate. Instead, the nation got four years of compounding ruin.

A regime was not merely changed but democracy was dismantled, piece by piece, demolished with full institutional complicity at every level. Parliament was reduced to a 'stinking chamber of convenience'. PTI commanding the largest popular mandate in Pakistan's history had its electoral symbol stolen, its seats brazenly allocated to others by judicial decree, all to hand a 17-seat party, a fraudulent two-thirds majority.

PTI's workers were tried in military courts. Its voters were disenfranchised. Its leader imprisoned — on charges arising from the very document the state refused to examine. The 26th & 27th Amendments were coercively passed, turning the judiciary into a handmaiden of the executive, an instrument of crooked consolidation rather than a guardian of rights.

Now count the human cost. 44% of our people are below the poverty line, 105 million people that is 20 million more than in 2019. Real incomes have collapsed. GDP growth of barely 3% cannot keep pace with population, let alone absorb new labour. Terrorism is at its highest. Capital is leaving, not arriving. 22 million young Pakistanis are neither working nor studying, 25 million children are out of school. The direction is unambiguous: Pakistan is getting poorer, faster than ever.

These are not statistics. These are children going to bed hungry. Young men drowning on boats to shores that may kill them, because their own country is pushing them out. Mothers choosing between medicine and bread. Every single one of these human beings is a direct, traceable, forensic consequence of the decision made in April 2022 to subvert the democratic mandate of the Pakistani people. This is not an act of God. It is the price of a conspiracy with all its collaborators naked before the people.

Donald Lu issued a threat. He did not remove a government. Pakistanis removed a Pakistani government. General Bajwa in uniform. Some in robes. Some in ‘dastaar’. Corrupt politicians, some with deep pockets from Dubai. They chose a foreign signal over the people and the constitution they had sworn to protect. The perpetrators were not only foreign but local. Let that be stated plainly and permanently on the record.

To those who say, "this is the past, let us move forward", I say that: There is no investment without rule of law. There is no rule of law without an independent judiciary. And there is no independent judiciary that can be built upon the foundations of predominantly crooked judges. The path forward runs through the truth, not around it.

Pakistan's economic misery, its institutional decay, total corruption, national termites eating up everything, none of it is an act of God. It is the direct and traceable consequence of a criminal regime change, facilitated from without and executed from within.

The contents of the cipher as reported are now public. The record is clear. The usurpers remain in power orchestrating my country's misery. The only reasonable and just way forward is unambiguous: LEAVE and let my people LIVE.

It pains me to invoke Iqbal for those who betrayed this nation, but this verse is timeless:
جعفر از بنگال و صادق از دکن
ننگِ آدم، ننگِ دیں، ننگِ وطن
Jaffer of Bengal, Sadiq of Deccan,
Disgrace to humanity, disgrace to faith, disgrace to country.

The cipher has spoken. Now Pakistan must. 🇵🇰

[Dr. Arif Alvi @ArifAlvi]

On the Cipher, the Coverup, and the Consequences:

Drop Site News published a document, claiming that it is the original Cipher I-0678 dated 7 March 2022, and it came from a military source. The world now believes that this is the smoking gun. Let's dissect it from there.

Pakistan's establishment spent four years suppressing, prosecuting people over it, claiming that it did not exist. The truth was forced out not from within Pakistan, but by an American investigative outlet. That fact alone is the indictment.

Donald Lu told Pakistan's Ambassador plainly: “All will be forgiven in Washington”, if the no-confidence motion against PM @ImranKhanPTI succeeded, while warning of isolation if it did not. This was not diplomacy. It was a threat and a bribe, delivered in the same breath, to a sovereign nation's ambassador. The NSC in its two meetings clearly stated that this amounted to unacceptable and blatant interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan and that the Govt. rightly issued a démarche.

On 12 May 2022, I as President formally wrote to CJP Umar Bandial requesting a Judicial Commission, open hearings, full investigation and truth be placed on record. This was published in all newspapers. (Please read the letter below, every word carries historic weight in world affairs of this nature).

CJP received that letter. Did not comment. Did not act. The judiciary's silence marked the beginning of its institutional surrender. Had that Commission been constituted, these questions would have been answered under oath: who received the cipher, who acted upon it, who domestically facilitated the foreign signal, and which institutions of the Pakistani state collaborated in the removal of an elected prime minister.

Pakistan would have had the truth. A man who warned the nation would not have been imprisoned on false charges arising from the very document the state refused to investigate. Instead, the nation got four years of compounding ruin.

A regime was not merely changed but democracy was dismantled, piece by piece, demolished with full institutional complicity at every level. Parliament was reduced to a 'stinking chamber of convenience'. PTI commanding the largest popular mandate in Pakistan's history had its electoral symbol stolen, its seats brazenly allocated to others by judicial decree, all to hand a 17-seat party, a fraudulent two-thirds majority.

PTI's workers were tried in military courts. Its voters were disenfranchised. Its leader imprisoned — on charges arising from the very document the state refused to examine. The 26th & 27th Amendments were coercively passed, turning the judiciary into a handmaiden of the executive, an instrument of crooked consolidation rather than a guardian of rights.

Now count the human cost. 44% of our people are below the poverty line, 105 million people that is 20 million more than in 2019. Real incomes have collapsed. GDP growth of barely 3% cannot keep pace with population, let alone absorb new labour. Terrorism is at its highest. Capital is leaving, not arriving. 22 million young Pakistanis are neither working nor studying, 25 million children are out of school. The direction is unambiguous: Pakistan is getting poorer, faster than ever.

These are not statistics. These are children going to bed hungry. Young men drowning on boats to shores that may kill them, because their own country is pushing them out. Mothers choosing between medicine and bread. Every single one of these human beings is a direct, traceable, forensic consequence of the decision made in April 2022 to subvert the democratic mandate of the Pakistani people. This is not an act of God. It is the price of a conspiracy with all its collaborators naked before the people.

Donald Lu issued a threat. He did not remove a government. Pakistanis removed a Pakistani government. General Bajwa in uniform. Some in robes. Some in ‘dastaar’. Corrupt politicians, some with deep pockets from Dubai. They chose a foreign signal over the people and the constitution they had sworn to protect. The perpetrators were not only foreign but local. Let that be stated plainly and permanently on the record.

To those who say, "this is the past, let us move forward", I say that: There is no investment without rule of law. There is no rule of law without an independent judiciary. And there is no independent judiciary that can be built upon the foundations of predominantly crooked judges. The path forward runs through the truth, not around it.

Pakistan's economic misery, its institutional decay, total corruption, national termites eating up everything, none of it is an act of God. It is the direct and traceable consequence of a criminal regime change, facilitated from without and executed from within.

The contents of the cipher as reported are now public. The record is clear. The usurpers remain in power orchestrating my country's misery. The only reasonable and just way forward is unambiguous: LEAVE and let my people LIVE.

It pains me to invoke Iqbal for those who betrayed this nation, but this verse is timeless:
جعفر از بنگال و صادق از دکن
ننگِ آدم، ننگِ دیں، ننگِ وطن
Jaffer of Bengal, Sadiq of Deccan,
Disgrace to humanity, disgrace to faith, disgrace to country.

The cipher has spoken. Now Pakistan must. 🇵🇰

[Jibran Ilyas @agentjay2009]

Goosebumps!

The man, the legend, the leader, the warrior, the statesman, Imran Khan!

He is vindicated yet again! Congrats to all Pakistanis standing behind him, you all are on the right side of history.

#سائفر_ایک_حقیقت
#زندان_ٹوٹے_گا_خان_چھوٹے_گا

[Kaptaan_Squad قیدی#۸۰۴ @Kaptaan_squad]

#سائفر_ایک_حقیقت

جب پاکستان کے داخلی معاملات میں غیر ملکی مداخلت ہوئی

اور ایک گریڈ 22 کے سرکاری نوکر نے جمہوری طور پر منتخب

حکومت کو گرانے کی سازش میں میر جعفر کا کردار ادا کیا

[EuroPak Association @Euro_Pak_Org]

The released Cypher doc by @DropSiteNews now provide evidence of interference in Pakistan’s democratic process, then an immediate independent investigation is essential and accountability must follow without exception. The arbitrary detention of @ImranKhanPTI must end immediately. @FCDOGovUK @EU_Commission